“The tiger is humbled by memories of prey.”
Final thoughts of Treach, the Tiger of Summer
Memories of Ice (2001)
“If most people cast their lot with the latter, then evil will prey forever upon humankind, as wolves and tigers prey upon lambs.”
"On Living with Dignity in China"
No Enemies, No Hate: Selected Essays and Poems
Context: Admittedly, righteousness is weak unless it is backed by power, but power devoid of righteousness is evil. If most people cast their lot with the latter, then evil will prey forever upon humankind, as wolves and tigers prey upon lambs.
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Samuel Butler
(1835–1902) novelist
Ramblings In Cheapside (1890)
Context: Propositions prey upon and are grounded upon one another just like living forms. They support one another as plants and animals do; they are based ultimately on credit, or faith, rather than the cash of irrefragable conviction. The whole universe is carried on on the credit system, and if the mutual confidence on which it is based were to collapse, it must itself collapse immediately. Just or unjust, it lives by faith; it is based on vague and impalpable opinion that by some inscrutable process passes into will and action, and is made manifest in matter and in flesh; it is meteoric — suspended in mid-air; it is the baseless fabric of a vision to vast, so vivid, and so gorgeous that no base can seem more broad than such stupendous baselessness, and yet any man can bring it about his ears by being over-curious; when faith fails, a system based on faith fails also.
“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”
George Gordon Byron
(1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
“Even the wolves cease their depredations, when they have secured all the prey.”
Alessandro Pepoli
(1757–1796) Italian writer
Si fermano anche i lupi quando hanno afferrato la preda.
La Scommessa, Act I., Sc. I. — (Il Marchese.). Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 417.
“Let no feeling of discouragement prey
upon you, and in the end you
are sure to succeed.”
Abraham Lincoln
(1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
“We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.”
Jane Austen
book
Persuasion
Source: Persuasion
“Animals that kill usually have far more social relationships than those they prey upon.”
Gilles Dauvé
(1947) French writer
"Letter on Animal Liberation" (1999)
On Human Nature (1978), Ch.4 Emergence
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo
(1714–1799) Scottish judge, scholar of language evolution and philosopher
Of the Origin and Progress of Language (Edinburgh and London: J. Balfour and T. Cadell, 2nd ed., 1774), Vol. I, Book II, Ch. II, pp. 224-225 https://archive.org/stream/originandprogre01conggoog#page/n251/mode/2up.
Shelley Lubben
(1968–2019) author, singer, motivational speaker, and former pornographic actress
Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn: The Greatest Illusion on Earth (2010), Ch. II